Sunlight In The Rain

and there you have it!

2009-11-05T18:56:00.000-08:00

my fall 2009 mix!

i hope you guys enjoyed it! :)

fall song #20

2009-11-04T18:51:00.000-08:00

vega - no reason

so fun. total rollerskating rink music.

fall song #19

2009-11-03T18:54:00.000-08:00

tj1949 - just like that

okay, found him on a gossip blog but I LOVE THIS SONG!

the video is highly disturbing, but at the same, so fucking entertaining! i ended up watch it 10 times in a row (well, listening to it anyways)

love it!

fall song #18

2009-11-02T18:50:00.000-08:00

alicia keys - doesn't mean anything

i try not to like alicia keys, but everytime i do, i find a song that i love.

her cover of how to save a life is amazing.

fall song #17

2009-11-01T18:47:00.000-08:00

sheryl crow - safe and sound

phillip bought the movie k-pax. i was in my room gossip blog reading and i fell in love with the song.

i will say that i have the studio album version, not the movie version which is MUCH better. it's more simple and it more haunting.

fall song #16

2009-10-31T18:45:00.000-07:00

monarchy - gold in the fire

sam sparro-ish.... happy halloween!

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fall song #15

2009-10-30T18:42:00.000-07:00

the xx - infinity

if chris issak dated a tarintino movie = infinity

fall song # 14

2009-10-29T18:40:00.000-07:00

penguin prison - animal animal

mellow mellow mellow cool.

fall song #13

2009-10-28T18:34:00.000-07:00

dragonette - pick up the phone

dragonette had me at "take it like a man" and i have not heard a terrible song since! she has the most tough soft voice i've heard in a long time. every song sounds perfect for a movie soundtrack. they seriously sound reallllly smart.

p.s. i love musicians who let their videos be embeddable.

fall song #12

2009-10-27T18:30:00.000-07:00

owl city - fireflies

like the postal service. for me, that means i will get bored with the rest of the album. ha ha!

this version is sped up to a more dancable version. love it.

those of you young hipster girls (and some boys) might want to check out the real video. apparently people think he's super cute. whatevers.

fall song #11

2009-10-26T18:28:00.000-07:00

pixie lott - cry me out

again, another one of those modernized sixties song by pixie lott.

fall song #10

2009-10-25T18:26:00.000-07:00

mobius band - hallie

i can't find a good quality album version of this song on youtube... but i know you can download it for free off of their record label, ghostly international (this is where i got the song from).

beautiful song. sounds like orange leaves falling off the trees.

fall song #9

2009-10-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

leighton meester - somebody to love ft robin thicke

blair waldorf is my favorite gossip girl character. nuff said.

oh, and she's sampling a song... i'm trying to figure out what song it is.... on the tip of my tongue....

fall song #8

2009-10-23T18:20:00.000-07:00

el perro del mar - change of heart

gorgeous!

fall song #7

2009-10-22T18:18:00.000-07:00

marina and the diamonds - i am not a robot (penguin prison remix)

i love the penguin prison remix A LOT. the second video is the original version. the official video for that song is sorta boring. oh well.

marina and the diamonds - i am not a robot

fall song #6

2009-10-21T18:16:00.000-07:00

anjulie - big things

another great song. this is from the fame 2009 movie soundtrack. it's sounds like anjulie is trying to make her sound a little more mainstream. not as good as "boom."

fall song #5

2009-10-20T18:12:00.000-07:00

cobra starship - hot mess

it's just a great pop song.... i always insert tranny between the hot and the mess. and there you have it. no real video for this has been released oh well.

fall song #4

2009-10-19T18:06:00.000-07:00

pixie lott - boys and girls

is it me or does does song sample lipps inc's funky town? you tell me (if you care)

pixie lott and a lot of the new british girls are doing this kinda modern sixties sound (amy winehouse and duffy). i love it.

lipps inc - funky town

fall song #3

2009-10-18T18:03:00.000-07:00

anjulie - boom (smoke and mirrors remix)

i actually love the brazilian girls remix of this song which makes it more of a powerful dance mix. the original version is good but definitely a much slower pop song. again, the video is only viewable via youtube. the brazilian girl remix is not on youtube at all.

fall song #2

2009-10-17T17:57:00.000-07:00

la roux - bullet proof

this is the only song i've like from la roux so far. the original video can only be viewed via youtube.

here's a viewer made video which is quite excellent.

fall song #1

2009-10-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

tommy sparks - bullet proof

this is the making of the video. the real video is only viewable on youtube. the second video is the full song sans video.

october mix via videos

2009-10-16T17:40:00.000-07:00

hi everyone,

yes, i know, totalllllly disappeared... but i'm honestly gonna try and repost interesting stuff... especially music!

now that balloon boy is safe and sound and a total fraud.

i'll be posting videos/songs that i have been listening to repetitively over the last month or so.

xoxo
c-

woah.

2009-08-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

i sorta giggled. this is some hardcore stuff!!!!!!!

song of the day: fun.

2009-08-27T04:19:00.001-07:00

fun. - not as sad as i used to be

oops

2009-08-27T04:11:00.000-07:00

can you believe it? i totally forgot i had this blog! ha ha ha ha!

i promise to update asap.

i've been listening to some great new musical discoveries.... and i wanna share!

xoxo

song of the day - fever ray

2009-06-21T02:04:00.000-07:00

fever ray - triangle walks

i love the remix by rex the dog A LOT

Triangle Walks from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

song of the day - katy perry

2009-06-10T13:53:00.000-07:00

katy perry - waking up in vegas (i prefer the calvin harris remix)

this is the only katy perry song i've liked so far....

song of the day: wale

2009-06-09T10:08:00.000-07:00

wale ft lady gaga - chillin'

song of the day - adam joseph

2009-06-08T01:10:00.000-07:00

adam joseph - just flow with my soul

song of the day: annie lennox

2009-06-07T00:54:00.000-07:00

annie lennox - love song for a vampire

song of the day: bonnie raitt

2009-06-06T00:53:00.000-07:00

bonnie raitt - lets give them something to talk about

song of the day: bonnie tyler

2009-06-05T00:35:00.000-07:00

bonnie tyler - total eclipse of the heart

song of the day: bat for lashes

2009-06-04T00:34:00.000-07:00

bat for lashes - pearl's dream

Bat For Lashes - "Pearl's Dream"

song of the day: hammarin & robin

2009-06-03T04:26:00.000-07:00

hammarin & robin - hell knows i'm in love

he definitely looks like the hot conan o'brien. :)

i heart cute kitties

2009-06-02T17:03:00.000-07:00

song of the day: lacrosse

2009-06-02T04:33:00.000-07:00

lacrosse - we are kids

song of the day: freemasons ft sophie ellis-bextor

2009-06-01T18:22:00.000-07:00

freemasons - heartbreak make me a dancer ft sophie ellis-bextor

song of the day: fiona apple

2009-05-31T05:51:00.000-07:00

fiona apple - first taste

my favorite fiona apple song

song of the day: dizzee rascal

2009-05-30T05:40:00.000-07:00

dizzee rascal ft calvin harris - dance wiv me

calvin harris is fine!

song of the day: adele

2009-05-29T05:35:00.000-07:00

adele - chasing pavement

song of the day: school of seven bells

2009-05-28T05:15:00.000-07:00

school of seven bells - half asleep

i prefer the song "chains" but it isn't on youtube.:(

song of the day: hawksley workman

2009-05-27T05:12:00.000-07:00

hawksley workman - jealous of your cigarette

song of the day: kelis

2009-05-26T05:06:00.000-07:00

kelis - get along with you

probs the best video she has ever done.

techno dogs!

2009-05-26T01:02:00.001-07:00

song of the day: jennifer lopez

2009-05-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

jennifer lopez - waiting for tonight

song of the day: goldfrapp

2009-05-24T04:51:00.000-07:00

goldfrapp - a&e

song of the day: fever ray

2009-05-23T04:46:00.000-07:00

fever ray - seven

song of the day: the duke spirit

2009-05-22T04:38:00.000-07:00

the duke spirit - the step and the walk

song of the day: angel taylor

2009-05-21T04:34:00.000-07:00

angel taylor - make me believe

again, the song is too new. no video. boo. she is so cute with those glasses!

song of the day: thunderheist

2009-05-20T04:33:00.000-07:00

thunderheist - sweet 16

this song is too new for a video. boo!

song of the day: lily allen

2009-05-19T04:21:00.000-07:00

lily allen - the fear

lily allen - not fair

song of the day: lady sovereign

2009-05-18T04:20:00.000-07:00

lady sovereign - so human

song o the day: franz ferdinand

2009-05-17T04:13:00.000-07:00

franz ferdinand - ulysses

song of the day: five o'clock heroes ft agyness deyn

2009-05-16T04:11:00.000-07:00

five o'clock heroes ft agyness deyn - who

song of the day: duffy

2009-05-15T04:05:00.000-07:00

duffy - rockferry

song of the day: chromeo

2009-05-14T03:52:00.000-07:00

chromeo - mamma's boy

i cannot find a good version of this song! :(

sigh. not good

2009-05-13T13:25:00.001-07:00

i was soooo excited to see "where the wild things are..." and after seeing this trailer... i think it's gonna FLOP. this looks soooooo fucking stupid.

this is how you teach kids to read

2009-05-13T13:22:00.000-07:00

the concept is fucking fantastic and genius.

rhyming "cock" with "ethan hawk" was another piece of brilliance.

Make The Girl Dance "Baby Baby Baby" ( official video )
by placeblancherec

song of the day: brooks and dunn

2009-05-13T03:46:00.000-07:00

brooks and dunn - neon moon

song of the day: bela nova

2009-05-12T03:46:00.000-07:00

bela nova - 1, 2, 3 GO!

song of the day: bat for lashes

2009-05-11T03:37:00.000-07:00

bat for lashes - daniel

song of the day: architecture in helsinki

2009-05-10T03:33:00.000-07:00

architecture in helsinki - that beep

what the hell is going on in this video?

work that pole

2009-05-09T12:31:00.000-07:00

i need to get back on that pole and work on my choreography!

amazing!

this is felix crane, 2009's miss pole dance from australia!

song of the day: santogold/santigold

2009-05-09T03:29:00.000-07:00

santogold / santigold - lights out

song of the day: soulja boy tell'em

2009-05-08T03:26:00.000-07:00

soulja boy tell'em - kiss me thru the phone

(yes, this song is so stupidly catchy)

song of the day: butterfly boucher

2009-05-07T03:19:00.000-07:00

butterfly boucher - gun for a tongue

song of the day: neko case

2009-05-06T03:14:00.000-07:00

neko case - this tornado loves you

directions for a booty call

2009-05-06T01:18:00.001-07:00

i was using googlemaps and this was one of their advertisements.

weird.

song of the day: little boots

2009-05-05T03:11:00.000-07:00

little boots - new in town

song of the day: husky rescue

2009-05-04T02:04:00.000-07:00

husky rescue - city lights

splinter, our newest family member

2009-05-03T02:45:00.000-07:00

this is splinter, our newest family member. i think he's living underneath ana's sculpture table! i saw some poop today next to the table! boo! but he's soooo cute!!!!!

i mistook it for a rat when i first saw splinter cause he's not very big at all...

note at 0:35 when i show you the cat food bag with a hole that splinter made last night cause i didn't put out food in the food tray like i normally do. so impatient!

song of the day: the bird and the bee

2009-05-03T02:01:00.000-07:00

the bird and the bee - love letter to japan

song of the day: dragonette

2009-05-02T01:59:00.000-07:00

hi!

i've been so swamped that i've completely ignored this blog... so to put myself back in the thick of things (or however the phrase goes...) i will try and post one song a day! it could be new or very old. whatever i can find on youtube that hits the spot.

i hope you enjoy and discover some great bands! :)

dragonette - jesus doesn't love me

come again?

2009-04-26T01:42:00.000-07:00

everytime i see this movie poster, i see the word: obese and not obsess. which makes me giggle cause i think this movie poster is an epic FAIL.

it is very cheesy and very tyler perry. that screams home made budget movie. oh well.

one of these days i'll watch dream girls and i'll let you know if i change my mind on her acting abilities.

birds of paradise

2009-04-20T03:28:00.000-07:00

i was peacock stalking! those things are beautiful and colorful!

my latest tenants, harold and maude have had two more babies! that's four total this year!

i've named them mugatu and zoolander! enjoy!

sad beautiful

2009-04-04T00:50:00.000-07:00

longing for lullabies ft titiyo - kleerup

the price is WRONG

2009-03-20T21:46:00.001-07:00

ugh. this makes me NOT want to buy this diamond...

i'm not saying i could afford it... but this definitely makes me pretend NOT want to buy it.

i had to sit there and try to figure out how much that was. do you reallllllly need seven 9s??? if you add ONE PENNY to that... it's gonna be 100,000 dollars!!!!!

doves 2009

2009-03-15T03:22:00.000-07:00

harold and maude are proud to announce the arrival of sasha fierce!

i'm not sure if sasha has a sister yet... i think she just hatched very recently since i was looking at them the other day and she hadn't said hi to the world yet.

more pics hopefully before sasha spread her wings and flies away to eat worms... or whatever doves eat.

last year, harold and maude had two: vivienne and knox. i hope they're all doing well where ever they are. ;)

like two snails passing in the night....

2009-03-14T03:18:00.000-07:00

isn't this romantic?

i walked past them while at school walking to my car. hopefully no one stepped on them.

ha ha ha... brilliant!!! cheaters sometimes do win!!!

2009-03-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

grounded love

2009-03-13T03:59:00.000-07:00

one of my favorite contemporary sculptors is german artist, katharina fritsch.

the image with the people around it is her piece, but the version i saw at the matthew marks gallery years ago was made entirely of just mirror pogs (no yellow or black) in it.

it's weird, because if you think about it, all it is.... is just pogs in the shape of a giant heart.

but gosh darn it, i almost cried because i thought it was so beautiful.

when you are standing there in the quiet of an art gallery, it might tip you off of any type of emotional equilibrium you are on.

my friend dana a. says that when she finally saw the sistine chapel, she started bawling.

the only other piece that has ever moved me to tears is picasso's desmoiselles d'avignon. first off, i am always shocked at the size of any piece of art i've only seen via textbook. i didn't expect it to be HUGE... larger than lifesize. i sat there on the bench and just took it in.

during the rainy season in los angeles, my backyard went nuts. so in a fit of obsessive thinking, i decided to try and mow the entire backyard... it took me two days to reach the image above...

although i wasn't thinking about katharina fritsch's piece, i thought about it two days later and thought that was cool.

initially, i was gonna try and mow the word CRAZY like in the aerosmith video of the same name.

but if i were to do that, i'd need a shirtless farmer to help me navigate the turns... and i was like, too much time...

so i ended up with a heart...

i've actually re-mowed it so make it a little bit more easy to tell what it is... but i need a ladder to get myself on my roof so that i can photograph it that way before i mow it away... maybe.

it's probably nice for the ghetto birds circling my hood to follow crackhead dealers during drug busts... i wish i had access to it so that i could see my backyard topiary...

maybe if i leave it long enough, i'll see it on googlemaps.

pop culture vocabulary word

2009-03-13T02:12:00.000-07:00

chairlift - EVIDENT UTENSILS

the cool term of the day is DATAMOSHING. this is how the chairlift video is styled. i love it. it reminds me of 60's model and sexy icon/artist, verushka.

and the second video of the night is:

bat for lashes - DANIEL

Daniel - Bat For Lashes

it's just soooo beautiful.

absolut mango sex

2009-03-12T03:35:00.000-07:00

click on image to enlarge.

i have been hearing great fun things about rupaul's drag race show.... so i decided to catch the first episode to see if it's worth it and i wholly agree. it is fun. i totally recommend it.

http://www.logoonline.com/shows/dyn/rupauls_drag_race/videos.jhtml

anyways, one of the sponsors of the show is absolut vodka, mango.

so every 6 minutes or so, there's a little mini commercial that goes on while it loads to the next part of the episode and i find myself staring at the ad... A LOT.

it's effective because it's so sensual. at first, i couldn't figure out that it was a mango. it was just too sexual and disturbing at the same time... and then once i realized what it was, it made me wonder why they would have used these images for their ad.

i mean, after all, it's a show on drag queens... wouldn't this work better on the spike channel? i initially took it to be very feminine... not gay.

i immediately thought two things: munch's the scream and a developing fetus in the uterus.... and then i thought georgia o'keefe because of the colors. it's so organic.

and then while i was collaging the images together to show you what i mean, i started looking at it again... and then i realized how GAY sex it was...

1. look at the positioning of the bottle... it looks a lot like anal sex.
2. the mango has a giant seed (sperm!). you use the phallic bottle to seed the fleshiness.
3. the word "comes" is exactly at the entrance of the ass.
4. the motto "true taste comes naturally" is sorta referring to bareback sex.

so i stand corrected. this is a very gay ad.

today on the tyra banks show...

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so interesting.

the first one is sorta fake i think. but i will say that they all are plausible.

if anything, this will be a good conversation piece.

if you click to the youtube link, you'll be able to watch the other four parts to the show.

FUTURE SOUNDS OF LOS ANGELES 02/20/09

2009-02-20T08:41:00.000-08:00

RYAN'S ORGASM - ryan

ADDICTION FT CASSIE & FABOLOUS - ryan leslie

SO HUMAN - lady sovereign

BOOMBOX (LA RIOT REMIX) - kylie minogue

I DID IT FOR LOVE - boa

DAY 'N' NITE (CROOKER'S REMIX) - kid cudi

SUMMERBOY - lady gaga

BOOM BOOM FT RHIANNA - baby cham

SERIOUS - duffy

FEELIN THE PAIN - dianne & carole

COLD SHOULDER - adele

WANNA BE GOOD - ryan leslie

EH EH (NOTHING ELSE I CAN SAY) - lady gaga

WELCOME TO HEARTBREAK FT KID CUDI - kanye

ELECTRIC AVENUE - eddy grant

NO GAMES - serani

HALF ASLEEP - school of seven bells

THE SOUND - human highway

EVIDENT UTENSIL - chairlift

SLOW MOTION - rupee

DOWN THE ROAD FT MAC MCANALLY - kenny chesney

WEINER - ryan

d.i.y. project #3: kitty house

2009-02-18T23:45:00.000-08:00

kitty house!
cost: $1.98 (two very large salad bowls @ $0.99 each)
amount of time to complete: 30 minutes with t.v.
tools: i hammered a nail through the areas i will twistie tie it. a box cutter to cut out of entrance. heavy duty tape around the edges cause it's breakable plastic.

d.i.y. project #2

2009-02-18T23:22:00.001-08:00

cherry wallpaper on the side of my bath tub!
cost: $0.99
amount of time to complete: 10 minutes
tools: a flat spackle to help push out air bubbles, a straight edge & box cutter to cut straight lines on top (my bath tub is bevelled)

ignore the dirty bathroom!

my first d.i.y. project of the year

2009-02-08T22:10:00.000-08:00

i actually probably haven't done many inventive do it yourself projects ever....

but last night i was looking around for a how to build your own rotary clothesline... and i found a site that has a bunch of d.i.y. items... and this one was one of my favorites and i did it today!

it cost me $1.00. the one on the internet suggests going to ikea and getting one for $10.00.

i was at the 99 cent store and saw allen wrench set. and mind you, it's made of plastic (but there is a metal under the orange plastic)... so i assume the ikea version would be more durable.

so what i did was i bought the allen wrench set, unscrewed the attachments, replaced all the allen wrenches with my keys. one thing to note is that you might need to file some of your keyholes to make it fit the screw. the allen wrenches had a metal washer in between some of the different sizes so i just used those to separate the keys a little bit.

they also suggested you file down all the key parts that stick out so it's more stream-line... but that would take too much time and i'm not sure if i'd be able to get them out without breaking a fingernail.

i reattached the nut and the screw bolt... and VOILA!

unfortunately my car key doesn't fit in there, so i attached a mini key ring into the allen wrench and started a daisy chain of key rings.

the reason why i love this project so much was that i have always been annoyed with the fact that when i throw my keys into my bag, that it would scratch my mobile phone, etc.... now instead of 10 keys scratching my stuff, there's only one key... the likelihood of scratching has gone down... right? i think so.

i'm so happy!

i'm your venus... i'm your fire....

2009-02-08T03:02:00.000-08:00

i miyagi-ed myself a fly in the house and fed it to the venus flytrap i bought several weeks ago....

the funny thing was that it closed with one of the legs sticking out.

it's so aeon flux...

someone clean out this vent

2009-02-07T03:08:00.000-08:00

so i went to the 99 cent store with my mother when i was down in san diego for the chinese new year. as i walked into the store, some shite flew in my eye and immediately turned my eye red. like, so red, my mom freaked out.

i told her to chillax and i decided to put some rewetting drops in my eye.

as i grabbed my bottle and tilted my head up to put the droplets in, my eye immediately honed onto one of the vents in the ceiling.

isn't this INSANE? i wish i saw the virgin mary's face or something instead...

only at walmart

2009-02-06T03:04:00.000-08:00

i had to return a christmas gift for phillip because target was cheaper.

while i line, i realized that the lady two people ahead of me had an oxygen tank in her shopping cart.

for some reason, i found that strangely fascinating.

it's like, how come i don't see her shopping at the h&m? that would be so awesome.

hmmm, you mean i save 90 percent?

2009-02-05T03:03:00.000-08:00

lost in translation

2009-02-04T03:00:00.000-08:00

someone should tell this dude what molestar sounds like in english.

i know the phrase means don't bother me.... but seriously, i'd bother him to let him know what that means... and then tell him to shave a little bit. it's not a good look for him methinks...

the gateway drug

2009-02-04T02:37:00.000-08:00

this is a midpoint between adorable and hilarious.

this is some kid right after dental surgery. so funny!

disappointment

2009-02-03T02:51:00.000-08:00

it's always a disappointment when you pull of out a swedish fish candy bag, a half bitten swedish fish.

first thing i do is blame the people who had some earlier.... and then i realize that the other half was still in the bag and somehow, the fish was fatally severed without any rhyme or reason.

yellow swedish fish... mmmmmm.

nessie

2009-02-02T02:54:00.000-08:00

i was walking to my car when i saw this bumper sticker.

first thing that kicked in was my ocpd (obsessive compulsive personality disorder, not ocd, which is totally different) and i was like, "hello.... it's on crooked."

i read a short story by david rakoff about the loch ness monster.

this reminded me of hope and being silly.

plus, the next day, the owner of the car parked near me and he was hella hot.

is this considered a subliminal message?

2009-02-02T02:48:00.001-08:00

is it me or does the wave of rebranding that happened recently gone mad?

i think that pepsi has the best one so far... as patriotism goes... i think that new pepsi logo looks completely like barack obama's presidental race logo!

you can judge for yourselves!

the ride of a lifetime

2009-01-31T00:54:00.001-08:00

i don't understand the point of this, but i started laughing really hard

2009-01-29T11:55:00.000-08:00

m.i.a.

2009-01-29T02:23:00.001-08:00

sheesh! i didn't realize i've been away this long!

the holidays are always pretty busy for me. and i got a freelance job that lasted me over a week, so that kept me busy right up to christmas... and then i went out of town to visit the family. then suddenly it was new year's eve and i needed to get out my holiday cards and burn cds of lovely music for 40 plus people. and then school started several days later.... and then a friend from out of town stayed for about a week.

and then suddenly it's the end of january.